NEW ORLEANS — Two people were killed and five others, including three children, were shot in the Lower Ninth Ward Sunday night, the New Orleans Police Department said.

Two children, ages 2 and 4, and another victim were in critical condition, and two other people — a girl, 13, and a woman, 37, — were stable, police spokesman Frank Robertson said. An 18-year-old woman and a man are dead. The slain man appeared to be in his late 20s, Robertson said in an email.